Dutch
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
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Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Pat ...
spelling of the given name
Adrian
Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water".
The Adria was until the 8th century BC the ma ...
. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.
Adriaen de Bie
Adriaen de Bie (3 October 1593 – 20 October 1668) was a Flemish people, Flemish painter, who is known for portraits, biblical scenes for churches and Italianate landscapes. In his youth he travelled to Paris and resided for a long period in ...
Adriaen van Bloemen (1639 – c. 1679), Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and engraver
* Adriaan Bonsel (1918–2011), Dutch composer
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Adriaen Brouwer
Adriaen Brouwer ( – January 1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.Adriaen Frans Boudewijns
Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (Brussels, 3 October 1644 – Brussels, 3 December 1719) was a Flemish Landscape art, landscape painter, Drafter, draughtsman and etcher. He was known mainly for his landscapes with trees, Italianate landscapes with ...
(1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter
* Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733), Dutch painter
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Adriaen van der Cabel
Adriaen van der Cabel or Ary van der Touw (1631 – 16 June 1705), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter active in France and Italy.
Biography
He was born and grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, near The Hague. Cabel was also known as ...
(1631–1705), Dutch painter of the Dutch school
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Adriaen Frans Boudewijns
Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (Brussels, 3 October 1644 – Brussels, 3 December 1719) was a Flemish Landscape art, landscape painter, Drafter, draughtsman and etcher. He was known mainly for his landscapes with trees, Italianate landscapes with ...
(1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher
* Adriaen Collaert (c. 1560 – 1618), Flemish designer and engraver
* Adriaen Coorte (c. 1665 – 1707+), Dutch still life painter
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Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth (1510 —1553) was a Renaissance glass painter from the Habsburg Netherlands.
Life
Crabeth was born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda. According to Karel van Mander, he had been the pupil of the glass painter Jan Swart van ...
Adriaan Dortsman
Adriaan Dortsman (1635, Vlissingen – 1682, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age architect of Amsterdam.
Biography
According to the RKD he moved to Amsterdam in 1667 and is known for drawings and architectural designs.Adriaen van Eemont (1626–1662), Dutch still life and landscape painter
* Adriaen Foly (1664–1701), Danish painter
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Adriaen van Gaesbeeck
Adriaen van Gaesbeeck (22 August 1621 – 11 February 1650) was a Dutch painter of genre subjects and portraits. His works, which are rare, are in the manner of Gerard Dou and Pieter van Slingeland. The Berlin Gallery possesses ''The Seamstress ...
(1621–1650), Dutch genre painter
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Adriaan Geuze
West 8 is an urban planning and landscape architecture firm founded by Adriaan Geuze and Paul van Beek in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1987. It is known for its contemporary designs and innovative solutions to urban planning problems using lighting, m ...
(born 1960), Dutch landscape architect
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Adriaen de Grijef
Adriaen de Grijef (1657 – 1722), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.
Biography
He was born in Leiden, the son of Jacques de Claeuw. He became a member of the Ghent Guild of St. Luke in 1687, and became a member of the A ...
(1657–1722), Dutch painter
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Adriaen Hanneman
Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603 – buried 11 July 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony van Dyck.
Biography
He was born into ...
(1603–1671), Dutch portrait painter
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Adriaan Jozef Heymans
Adriaan Jozef Heymans (or Adrien-Joseph Heymans; 11 June 1839 in Antwerp – December 1921 in Brussels) was a Belgian impressionist landscape painter.
Biography
His father was a trader in window-glass, who died when Heymans was only seven. Af ...
(1839–1921), Belgian impressionist landscape painter
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Adriaen Honich
Adriaen Honich (1643, Dordrecht – c.1684), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken, who mentioned him three times with different spellings of his name, he was known as "Lossenbruy" in a poem about the Bent ...
(1643 – c. 1684), Dutch landscape painter
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Adriaen Isenbrandt
Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490 – July 1551) was a painter in Bruges, in the final years of Early Netherlandish painting, and the first of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting of the Northern Renaissance. ...
Adriaen Matham
Adriaen Matham (1590 – 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer. He was part of an embassy to the Saadi dynasty of Morocco and also made some engravings while there. He married three times, once in Amsterdam and later lived ...
(1590–1660), Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer
* Adriaen van Nieulandt (1587–1658), Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Adriaen van Oolen (c. 1650 – 1709), Dutch bird, landscape and still life painter
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Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women.
Life
According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his br ...
Adriaen van Utrecht
Adriaen van Utrecht (Antwerp, 12 January 1599 – 1652) was a Flemish painter known mainly for his sumptuous banquet still lifes, game and fruit still lifes, fruit garlands, market and kitchen scenes and depictions of live poultry in farmyards. ...
(1599–1652), Flemish Baroque still life painter
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Adriaen Valerius
Adrianus Valerius, also known as Adriaen Valerius, (c. 1575 – 1625) was a Dutch poet and composer, known mostly for his poems dealing with peasant and burgher life and those dealing with the Dutch War of Independence, assembled in his great ...
(c. 1575 – 1625), Dutch poet and composer
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Adriaen van de Velde
Adriaen van de Velde (bapt. 30 November 1636, in Amsterdam – bur. 21 January 1672, in Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and print artist. His favorite subjects were landscapes with animals and genre scenes.Adriaen van de Venne
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 12 November 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier.
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(1589–1662), Dutch painter, miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires
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Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom
Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom (1627 – 1673), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
He was born in Rotterdam, and was the older brother and teacher of Willem Hendricksz Verboom.Adriaan Verbuch (fl. 1600), Dutch Golden Age painter
* Adriaen Verdoel (c. 1620 – 1675), Dutch Golden Age painter
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Adriaen de Vries
Adriaen de Vries (c.1556–1626) was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands but working in Central Europe, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and ...
Adriaen van der Werff Adriaen is a Dutch form of Adrian. Notable people with the name include:
* Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral
*Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator
* Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter
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Adriaan Anthonisz
Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527–1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications. As a mathematician Anthonisz calculated in 1585 ...
(1541–1620), Durtch mathematician and engineer, mayor of Alkmaar, father of above
* Adriaan van Baarland (1486–1538), Dutch historian
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Adriaan Bax
Adriaan "Ad" Bax (born 1956) is a Dutch-American molecular biophysicist who is a Distinguished Investigator at the National Institutes of Health. He is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics ...
(born 1956), Dutch molecular biophysicist
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Adriaan Blaauw
Adriaan Blaauw (12 April 1914 – 1 December 2010) was a Dutch astronomer.
Blaauw was born in Amsterdam to Cornelis Blaauw and Gesina Clasina Zwart, and studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, obtaining his doctorate at the ...
(1814–2000), Dutch astronomer
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Adriaan Gilles Camper
Adriaan Gilles Camper (March 31, 1759 – February 5, 1820) was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years. He was the son of Petrus Camper is ...
(1759–1820), Dutch mathematics and physicist
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Adriaan Fokker
Adriaan Daniël Fokker (; 17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972) was a Dutch physicist. He worked in the fields of special relativity and statistical mechanics. He was the inventor of the Fokker organ, a 31 equal temperament, 31-tone equal-temp ...
(1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician
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Adriaan de Groot
Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot ( Santpoort, 26 October 1914 – Schiermonnikoog, 14 August 2006) was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he ...
(1914–2006), Dutch chess master and psychologist
* Adriaan de Groot (born 1973), Dutch computer programmer
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Adriaan Heereboord
Adriaan Heereboord (13 October 1613 in Leiden – 7 July 1661 in Leiden) was a Dutch philosopher and logician.
Life
He was born in Leiden and graduated from the University of Leiden, where he had the chair of philosophy from 1643. Biography in t ...
(1613–1661), Dutch philosopher and logician
* Adriaen de Jonghe (1511–1575), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, etc.
* Adriaan Kluit (1735–1807), Dutch linguist
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Adriaan Koerbagh
Adriaan Koerbagh (1632–1669) was a Dutch physician, scholar, and writer who was a critic of religion and conventional morality. He was in the circle of supporters of Baruch Spinoza.
Life
Adriaan Koerbagh and his younger brother Johannes (1634� ...
(1633–1669), Dutch scholar and writer
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Adriaan Kortlandt
Adriaan Kortlandt (25 January 1918, Rotterdam – 18 October 2009, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Ethology, ethologist. He has been described together with Vernon Reynolds and Jane Goodall as "...one of a trio of pioneers ... who founded field research, ...
(1918–2009), Dutch ethologist
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Adriaan van Maanen
Adriaan van Maanen (March 31, 1884 – January 26, 1946) was a Dutch-American astronomer. Born in Friesland, he studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht, earning his Ph.D. in 1911, and worked briefly at the University of Groningen. In 1 ...
(1884–1946), Dutch–American astronomer
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Adriaan Metius
Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Metius, (9 December 1571 – 6 September 1635), was a Dutch geometer and astronomer born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch word ''meten'' ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" ...
(1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer
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Adriaan Isebree Moens
Adriaan Isebree Moens (15 November 1846 – 24 June 1891) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. He is known for his work on arterial stiffness and the propagation of waves in elastic tubes.
Life and family
Adriaan Isebree Moens was the son of J ...
(1846–1891), Dutch physician and physiologist
* Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer (1915–1981), South African Afrikaans academic, historian and author
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Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins
Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins (1921 – 11 February 2000) was a Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist.
He was a recipient of many research grants and fellowships (UNESCO, Ford Foundation, the Netherlands Organization for Pure Research, ...
(1921–2000), Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist
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Adriaan Reland
Adriaan Reland (also known as ''Adriaen Reeland/Reelant'', ''Hadrianus Relandus''; 17 July 1676 – 5 February 1718)John Gorton, ''A General Biographical Dictionary'', 1838, Whittaker & Co. was a Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philo ...
(1676–1718), Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist
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Adriaan van Roomen
Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europ ...
(1561–1615), Flemish mathematician
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Adriaan Joseph van Rossem
Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (December 17, 1892 in Chicago – September 4, 1949) was an American ornithologist of Dutch ancestry. He came from an affluent family where his father died very early in his life. Van Rossem went on to attend both pu ...
(1892–1949), American ornithologist
* Adriaan van Royen (1704–1779), Dutch botanist
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Adriaan van den Spiegel
Adriaan van den Spiegel (or Spieghel), name sometimes written as Adrianus Spigelius (1578 – 7 April 1625), was a Flemish anatomist born in Brussels. For much of his career he practiced medicine in Padua, and is considered one of the great physi ...
Adriaan Vlacq
Adriaan Vlacq (1600–1667) was a Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables. Born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda, Vlacq published a table of logarithms from 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places in 1628 in his ''Arithmetica logarit ...
(1600–1667), Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables
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Adriaan Wesselink
Adriaan Jan Wesselink (1909–1995) was a Dutch astronomer who worked successively in the Netherlands, South Africa and the United States. He specialised in observing and understanding the characteristics of stars, particularly variable stars.
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Adriaan Carelse
Adriaan John Carelse (born 8 February 1995) is a South African rugby union player for the Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby (MLR). His regular position is fly-half of fullback. He previously played for Rugby ATL and the Dallas Jackals in ...
(born 1995), South African rugby player
* Adriaan Engelbrecht (born 1990), South African rugby player
* Adriaan Fondse (born 1983), South African rugby player
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Adriaan Katte
Adriaan Johan Louis Katte (24 June 1900 – 4 June 1991) was a Dutch field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport ev ...
(1900–1991), Dutch field hockey player
* Adriaan Koonings (1895–1963), Dutch footballer
* Adriaan Paulen (1902–1985), Dutch athlete and president of the IAAF
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Adriaan Richter
Adriaanus Jacobus 'Adriaan' Richter (born 10 May 1966), is a former South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1992 and 1995.
Career
Province
Richter made his provincial debut for Trans ...
(born 1966), South African rugby player
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Adriaan Strauss
Jan Adriaan Strauss (born 18 November 1985) is a South African former professional rugby union player who played first class rugby between 2005 and 2018. He played in 66 international test matches for (captaining them in 2016) and also featured ...
(born 1985), South African rugby player
Statesmen, religious leaders and military leaders
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Adriaen Banckert
Adriaen van Trappen Banckert (c.1615 – 22 April 1684) was a Dutch admiral. In English literature he is sometimes known as ''Banckers''. His first name is often rendered in the modern spelling ''Adriaan''. ''Van Trappen'' was the original family ...
(1615–1684), Dutch admiral
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Adriaen Maertensz Block
Adriaen Maertensz Block (c.1582, Gouda – 7 March 1661, Lisse) was successively captain, commander, and governor of Ambon between 1614 and 1617, administrator of the Council of the Indies for the Kamer of the Dutch East India Company in Ams ...
(1582–1661), successively captain, commander, and governor of the Ambon Island
* Adriaan Boeyens (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
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Adriaan Dijxhoorn
Adriaan Quirinus Hendrik Dijxhoorn (10 September 1889 – 22 January 1953) was a Dutch soldier who served as Minister of Defence during the Battle of the Netherlands. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed Minister of Def ...
(1889–1953), Dutch Minister of Defence during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940
* Adriaan Engelvaart (1812–1893), Dutch military commander and politician
* Adriaan van Flodroff (died 1690), Dutch Major General of cavalry
* Adriaan Florensz (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
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Adriaan van der Meyden
Adriaan van der Meyden was the two time Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was first appointed on 11 October 1653 and was Governor until 12 May 1660, when he was succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens
Rijcklof Volckertsz. van Go ...
(fl. 1653–63), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
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Adriaan Pauw
Adriaan Pauw, knight, '' heer van Heemstede, Bennebroek, Nieuwerkerk etc.'' (1 November 1585 – 21 February 1653) was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1631 to 1636 and from 1651 to 1653.
Life
He was born in Amsterdam in a rich merchant fami ...
(1585–1653), Grand Pensionary of Holland
* Adriaan van der Stel (died 1646), Dutch governor of Mauritius
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Adriaan Valckenier
Adriaan Valckenier (6 June 1695 – 20 June 1751) served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741. He is primarily known for his role in the 1740 Batavia massacre. Valckenier was arrested for his involvement in 1742 and su ...
(1695–1751), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741
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Adriaan Vlok
Adriaan Johannes Vlok (11 December 1937 – 8 January 2023) was a South African politician. He was Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Facing increasingly intense opposition and ...
(1937–2023), South African politician
Writers, actors, film directors
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Adriaan van Dis
Adriaan van Dis (Bergen aan Zee, 16 December 1946) is a Dutch author. He debuted in 1983 with the novella ''Nathan Sid''. In 1995 his book ''Indische Duinen'' (''My Father's War''), which in its narrative is a follow-up to his debut novella, wa ...
(born 1946), Dutch author
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Adriaan Ditvoorst
Adriaan Ditvoorst (23 January 1940 – 18 October 1987) was a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1984. His 1967 film ''Paranoia'' was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.
Selec ...
(1940–1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter
* Adriaan Kyvon (born 1947), Dutch comedian, television producer and screenwriter
* Adriaan Loosjes (1761–1818), Dutch botanist, poet, novelist and publisher
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Adriaan van Hees
Adriaan Nicolaas Johan van Hees (3 May 1910 – 2 December 1976) was a Dutch actor and member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB). Van Hees was trained in Amsterdam and Germany, and spent a few years in theater and film. He ...
(1910–1976), Dutch actor and member of the NSB
* Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627), Flemish writer and translator
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Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
Adriaan Theodoor Basilius (Ad) Peperzak (born 3 July 1929) is a Dutch educator, editor and author.
Biography
Peperzak was born on the island of Java (Indonesia) as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy at the Franciscan monastery schools in ...
(born 1929), Dutch educator, editor and author
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Adriaan Poirters
Adriaan Poirters (baptised 2 November 1605, in the Sint-Petrus'-Bandenkerk in Oisterwijk – died 4 July 1674, Mechelen) was a Brabantian Jesuit poet and prose writer who was active in the Counter Reformation
The Counter-Reformation (), als ...
(1605–1674), Dutch Jesuit poet and prose writer
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Adriaan Roland Holst
Adriaan Roland Holst (Amsterdam, 23 May 1888 – Bergen, North Holland, 5 August 1976) was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize.
He was nominated for t ...
(1888–1976), Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets"
* Adriaan van Toor (born 1942), Dutch comedian
Other
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Adriaen van Bergen
A Dutch skipper from Leur, Adriaen van Bergen devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War. In February 1590, he approached Prince Maurice with a Trojan Horse
In Greek mythology, the Troja ...
(fl. 1590), devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War
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Adriaen Block
Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages ...
(1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator
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Adriaen van der Donck
Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (1618 – 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific ''Jonkheer'' the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as sometimes claimed, the first lawyer in ...
(1618–1655), Dutch lawyer, landowner and ethnographer in New Netherland after whom Yonkers, New York is named
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Adriaan Justus Enschedé
Adriaan Justus Enschedé (Haarlem, 20 June 1829 – Haarlem, 19 March 1896)P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok (red.)Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 3(Dutch) Adriaan Justus Enschedé was a Haarlem archivist, collector, owner of the Joh. E ...
(1829–1896), Dutch archivist, collector, printer and philanthropist
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Adriaan van der Hoop
Adriaan van der Hoop (28 April 1778, in Amsterdam – 17 March 1854, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch banker and in the first half of the 19th century one of the richest men in the Netherlands. He also was an influential politician: a member of th ...
(1778–1854), Dutch banker
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Adriaan Pelt
Adriaan Pelt (8 May 1892 – 11 April 1981) was a Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat, most famous for drafting the post war constitution of Libya.
As a reporter for the newspaper De Telegraaf he lived during the First ...
(1892–1981), Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat
* Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938–2015), Dutch gallerist and art collector
* Adriaan Stoop (1856–1935), Dutch oil explorer
* Adriaen Jorissen Tienpoint (fl. 1624–26), Dutch explorer of the American East coast
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Adriaan Schade van Westrum
Adriaan Schade van Westrum (14 June 1865 – 19 May 1917) was a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune starting in 1910. He was the literary critic since 1913.
Biography
He was born in 1865 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1885 he mig ...